BSC PHARMACOLOGY

Postgraduate programme

BSC PHARMACOLOGY

Offered by UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL

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Programme overview

Why choose this programme?

Pharmacology is the study of the action of drugs in the widest possible sense it encompasses many types of chemicals that affect the functioning of the body rather than just medicines.

For the first two years, you will study a number of core units run by the School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience and choose others from a wide selection, such as biochemistry, molecular genetics, infection and immunity, cellular and molecular medicine and mammalian physiology. Final-year units emphasise the molecular mechanisms of drug action and take you to the forefront of current research.

In your final year, formal lectures are replaced by seminars and tutorials and a fully integrated programme of activities develops your transferable personal and professional skills.

We use a wide variety of teaching approaches, which are both traditional (including lectures, practical work and tutorials) and innovative for example, our practical teaching is currently enhanced by self-directed learning using computer-assisted packages, such as eBiolabs.

Modality

ON-CAMPUS: BRISTOL

UCAS entry grades

AAB

UCAS Tariff points

136 points

Tuition fee

£9,535

Entry requirements

Applicants must also meet these requirements

GCSE profile requirements
- No specific subjects required.
- Further information about GCSE requirements and profile levels.

English language requirements

If English is not your first language, you need to have one of the following:

- IELTS 6.5 overall with 6.0 in all skills
- GCSE English Language grade C or 4
- an alternative qualification outlined in our Profile level E.

Dates and duration

3 year(s) full-time.

SYLLABUS

YEAR 1

- Pharmacology 1A
- Pharmacology 1B
- Physiology 1A
- Physiology 1B

- Biochemistry: Cellular Composition
- Normal and Tumour Cells
- Introduction to Social and Developmental Psychology

- Biochemistry: Cellular Processes
- Disease and Defence
- Introduction to Cognitive and Biological Psychology
- Sustainable Development
- City Futures: Migration, Citizenship, and Planetary Change
- Creative Futures: Tools for Changing the World
- Understanding global problems using data: inequality, climate change and the economy
- Decolonise the Future!
- Science of Happiness

- Introduction to Neuroscience
- Functional Neuroanatomy

YEAR 2

- Pharmacology of the Nervous System
- Pharmacology of Body Systems
- Techniques in Pharmacology
- Skills for Life (Sciences)

- Gene expression and rearrangement
- Infection and Immunity
- Neurophysiology

- Recombinant DNA Technology
- Cellular and Molecular Pathology
- Integrative Physiology

- Big Ideas in Science

YEAR 3

- Concepts and Skills
- Research Project
- Receptor signalling and non-drug therapies
- Molecular Pharmacology

- Drugs in the Nervous System
- Synaptic plasticity
- Neurological and Psychiatric disorders
- Exercise Physiology in Health and Disease